Theme & Variation. In Washington, newsmen were barred from the Government information officials' luncheon at which Commerce Department Information Director Albert Leman delivered a speech entitled "Mum's Not the Word--a New Look at Public Information."

Switch Hitter. In El Centro, Calif., after her first class in defense tactics at the Women's Group of the Imperial County Sheriff's Reserve, Mrs. Ruby Solomon went home and woke husband Ben, told him to swing at her, got a lusty clout on the side of the head, remembered too late that she and the other ladies had been defending against right-hand blows and that Ben was a southpaw.

The Large View. In Bangor, Me., flying over the city in an Air Force jet plane, eagle-eyed Police Chief John B. O'Toole spotted an auto double-parked in front of the Merrill Trust Co., radioed Police Radio Dispatcher Richard Whittemore to have it ticketed.

Hero's Reward. In Hoboken, N.J., city officials decided to recall the fancy badges handed out to civil defense auxiliary policemen after learning that they were being used to get free admission to the movies.

Wet Rag. In Birmingham, when he returned home and found a dozen lawn chairs scattered about his front yard after a party given by his wife, Clem Clark, 39, angrily piled them together and burned them, was arrested and fined $50 for setting a bonfire without a permit.

I The Jury. In Budapest, the state radio announced that the dean of the law faculty of Lorand Eoetvoes University was sentenced to three years in prison for lifting cash from the university till for a big night at the faculty's "Justice Ball." Sporting Gesture. In Los Angeles, arraigned on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon for stabbing her paramour, Edward Burton. 28, Nancy Jean Barett, 30, explained to police: "I didn't stab him, I threw the knife at him, and I thought he caught it; I guess he did."

Entree. In Montgomery, Ala., R. H. Wright was fined $25 for vagrancy after Waitress Mrs. L. L. Goldman testified that he had strolled into the Old Barn Restaurant, ordered a breakfast of two eggs, then settled down for a two-day stay during which he posed as the new manager, did all the buying, hired a new cook.

The Big City. In Edinburgh, Scotland, Vacationer Leslie Howes, 43, went out to see the town, got lost, five days later asked police to help him find his boarding house because it was time for him to go home to Yarmouth.

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